contumely
Anglais
Étymologie
- De l’ancien français contumelie, issu du latin contumēlia (« insulte »), peut-être constitué de tumeō (« gonfler ») avec le préfixe com-.
Nom commun
| Singulier | Pluriel |
|---|---|
| contumely \Prononciation ?\ |
contumelies \Prononciation ?\ |
contumely \ˈkɒntjuːməli\
- Outrage, affront, injure.
- For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...]. — (William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1594)
- What scorn, what contumely, would be his! — (Grace Livingston Hill, The Best Man, 1914)
- If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation. — (James Strachey, traduction de Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, p. 178, 1953)
- I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood. — (Robert Nye, Falstaff, 1976)
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